Test 11 · ★ · Danish Tales, Jurgen, part 176: Jurgen returns home to a d…

Was it a long winter after the summer?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: long winter · What happens: be · To what, where: it

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 965 «Danish Tales, Jurgen, part 176: Jurgen returns home to a dead foster-mother, quarrels with Martin, and leaves for the north» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Was	obj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 winter	det
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 winter	amod
5	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Was	nsubj
6	after	after	ADP	_	8 summer	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 summer	det
8	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 winter	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Was	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a long winter after the summer	it					vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, just rainy and grey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 rainy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 rainy	advmod
4	rainy	rainy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 grey	cc
6	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rainy	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, mega snow and cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 snow	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 snow	punct
3	mega	mega	CCONJ	_	4 snow	cc
4	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cold	cc
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 snow	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Nah, the winter was mild and warm and the sea stayed calm all along the coast

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 mild	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 winter	det
4	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mild	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mild	cop
6	mild	mild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 warm	cc
8	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 mild	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 stayed	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sea	det
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stayed	nsubj
12	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mild	conj
13	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 stayed	xcomp
14	all	all	ADV	_	12 stayed	advmod
15	along	along	ADP	_	17 coast	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 coast	det
17	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the winter		mild property	tree rules
2	be		the winter not said here			tree rules
3	stay	past	the sea	the coast	all, calm property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along coast=Location

Option 4

Yeah, it was a long freezing winter with loads of snow and ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	8 winter	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 winter	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 winter	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 winter	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 winter	amod
7	freezing	freezing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 winter	compound
8	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 loads	case
10	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 winter	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 snow	case
12	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 loads	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 ice	cc
14	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 snow	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a long freezing winter				with loads of snow and ice	tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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